Alampur Saibaba Goud is an Indian

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and founder-chairman of the Devnar Foundation for the Blind. He is also a social entrepreneur, and active in the voluntary organization at

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, a state of India. He works in the field of providing aid to visually challenged and visually disabled children in India. He had won awards for his work and has written several books and articles for the blind in

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newspapers and journals. He does educational radio talks broadcast on the

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network in India.

Professional life

Goud is president of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (NSPB) in the state of

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, and Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at

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. He is the Founder-trustee of Devnar Foundation for the Blind and chairman of the Andhra Pradesh

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Association for the Blind.

Activist for the blind community of Andhra Pradesh

Goud leads the Devnar Foundation (founded in 1991) in their efforts to provide opportunities and infrastructure essential to integrating the visually impaired into society as productive adults. Through the foundation, vision-disabled people are provided accommodation, schools, and vocational programs to become self-employed or work in the private sector. The foundation provides computer training and facilities for extracurricular activities such as cricket, chess, music and dance.Interview : A Saibaba Goud
The foundation is attempting to organise a Polytechnic engineering college for the blind through various affiliations. It provides medical care for sight-related needs of children along with parental counseling and genetic counseling. The Foundation manages the Ramananda Centre for Advanced Learning and Research for visually impaired vocational training and provides CBR programs, and operates Braille printing presses.

Success stories

Companies that have supported the efforts of Foundation include GE,

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, and

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. The employees of GE hold entertainment and story telling programs which help the children feel that they are a part of normal society. Some of these companies have volunteered to recruit students once they graduate. The

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provides a 1% reservation for the blind.

Awards

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*He is the first ever recipient of the Indian ophthalmologic award - the national award Ph.D. given by

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*Dr K. R. Dutta award for exemplary work in the field of Ophthalmology community *Drishti Pradatha Award *Rastriya Gaurav Award *J. S. Mahashadba Award by the All Indian Ophthalmological Society. *Award for a film on

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by the All Indian Ophthalmologoical Society *E. V. Srinivasan Award

Author

Goud is the author of several books. *''Nayanabhiramam'' in

*''Meeru-Mee Kanulu'' in Telugu for neo-literates for eye care. *''The Organ of the Sight'' in

References

External links

*http://www.devnarfoundationfortheblind.org *https://web.archive.org/web/20080316082310/http://www.developednation.org/interviews/asaibabagoud.htm *http://www.isb.edu/ils2007/track2_profiles.html * *http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEU20070802020209&Page=U&Title=Hyderabad&Topic=0& *http://www.indiaedunews.net/Engineering/Engineering_college_for_blind_students_1741/print.asp *https://web.archive.org/web/20080905164347/http://www.aios.org/awards2007.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20090130213809/http://ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20090081403 {{DEFAULTSORT:Goud, Saibaba Living people Telugu people Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine Indian ophthalmologists Medical doctors from Hyderabad, India People from Secunderabad 20th-century Indian medical doctors Indian medical writers Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century surgeons